"Smoke," by Hollywood
actress Meili Cady, tells the story of a young lady who had some success in Hollywood as an actress and subsequentially got accused of
smuggling seven tons of pot into the USA. This new book came to our attention right
after we viewed "The Big High" 1968 episode of Dragnet and a colorized version
of "Reefer Madness." On Thursday May 28,
we heard one of the Getty and Armstrong (which one is Costello, which one is
Laurel?) duo did a segment which urged American military veterans with Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to "get the card," which is to say they should
do the paper work that would give them access to medical marijuana rather than
seek relief via consuming alcoholic drinks.
We knew that it was time to do another column on a topic that permits us
to use the old cliche: "we don't have a
dog in that fight." Th

e World's Laziest Journalist doss not care if Pot is
classified as a capital offense or if it becomes a product available in (irony
alert!) drug stores and/or is sold at the corner news stand (do they still
exist?).

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Doing fact checking to see why the boys at the Amalgamated
Conspiracy Theory Factory voted the rumors surrounding the reason why pot was
original classified as a dangerous narcotic as an explanation of why pot was
voted into the Conspiracy Theory Hall of Fame (located on the super-secret
campus somewhere in the Sierra foothills, near Berkeley) was a myth of Sisyphus
assignment.

Back when "Reefer Madness" was a sensationalistic new movie
it helped (propaganda alert?) convince the public that one puff for pleasure
could lead, inexorably, to a life as a demented dope fiend. The 1968"Big High" episode of Dragnet (it's
available for viewing on Youtube), seconded the motion.

Could it be that capitalists, allegedly from both the booze
and paper industries, as a way of diminishing a threat of competition, somehow
(bribe alert?) convinced politicians to overreact and blacklisted a product
with medicinal effects that would be very therapeutic for G. I.'s with battle
fatigue? If so, why then would
altruistic minded Republican politicians continue their misguided efforts after
the doctors presented them with documentation that strongly endorsed the
controversial PTSD treatment?

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We considered doing a column detailing how, today, the
voters in the USA seem to be
as much the victims of lies, distortion, and propaganda as were the citizens of
Germany,
in the Thirties. Ein Volk got all their
news only from officially sanction sources of information such as the Volkisher
Brobachter newspaper. Is Fox News
following in that tradition?

Denny Hastert did something and made mistakes in withdrawing
the hush money from his bank account.
Republicans want to go on record as saying the persecution of Hastert is
an example of government overreach and not worth the effort and concomitant
media circus. When Bill Clinton got a
blowjob from a consenting adult woman, it was a basis for a group with lynch
mob mentality to urge that impeachment proceedings should begin immediately. What's not to love about strong, opposing partisanship
reactions to the two stories?

Last December, when some of the citizens staged some "Black
Lives Matter" protests in Berkeley,
a low-flying single engine airplane was pointed out to us and the assertion was
made that it was intercepting and monitoring cell phone calls being made below
them as a way to do crowd control.
During this past week, Newsweek provided confirmation of those rumors. Do a Google News search for "Operation
Stingray."

We were also tipped to the assertion that a rich pair of
brothers bankrolled an effort to discredit the "Black Lives Matter" political
protests by paying thugs to commit vandalism and to incite violence. Then when it was time for the hooligans to
collect the promised cash, they were stiffed.
That allegedly precipitated new riots with a more pragmatic
rationale. That topic was accessible via
a Google News search, but perhaps all traces of that story have been scrubbed
off the Internet by now.

If true, this hypothesis has some very disconcerting
implications. If hoodlums were paid to
add vandalism and violence to a legitimate free speech protest, then one must
make one of two conclusions. If the
American Homeland Security agency was fully informed and complicit with what
was happening, then fascism and Gestapo tactics have become an ingredient in
American life. If, on the other hand,
the Homeland Security did not know ahead of time about the payments to
aggravate the situation, then their reasons for surveillance of all American
citizens is a farce. They were either
complicit or derelict in their mission if some of the protesters were paid
agent provocateurs. With that ominous
binary choice, it becomes evident why management of the news might be an
integral part of the charade.

These days all the news seems to have a conspiracy theory
aspect to it. Have you heard the
assertion that B. B. King might have been the victim of foul play?

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The latest hacking scandal causes us to ask again: "Why didn't the system that was hacked use
the security program that makes the electronic voting machines immune from all
attempts to get hacked?

The hot rumor making the rounds this week on the digital
counter-culture websites is that the John Kerry broken leg story was not a bike
accident but was a fib designed to draw attention away from an assassination
attempt by Isis.

Does the slump in confidence in American Journalism imply a
concomitant spike in credibility for various and sundry Conspiracy Theories?

Speaking of de facto censorship, is it true that the website
RevolutionbooksNYC dot org is promoting the use of a graphic symbol
illustrating the concept that citizens should fear the police assigned to
protect and serve them? Will media owned
by conservative millionaires permit the staff to give any publicity to that
concept?

BP graduated from college in the mid sixties (at the bottom of the class?) He told his draft board that Vietnam could be won without his participation. He is still appologizing for that mistake. He received his fist photo lesson from a future (more...)